1. PINK FLOYD’S
“The Endless River”
Taylor Swift
Shuns “Grand Experiment”
of Streaming Music
The most pre-ordered
album of all time
AC/DCLaunch
“Rock or Bust” LP
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DECEMBER 2012 Issue 12
TaylorSwiftShuns‘Grand
Experiment’ofStreamingMusic
Pink Floyd ‘The Endless River’- The
mostpreorderedalbumofalltime
AC/DCLaunch‘RockorBust’LP
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Taylor Swift Shuns ‘Grand Experiment’
of Streaming Music
Days after Taylor Swift pulled her dis-
cography from Spotify, the pop star has
explained the rationale behind the de-
cision. In an interview with Yahoo, the
singer fielded a question asking her to
speculate on how differently her latest
record, 1989, would have sold were it on
the music-streaming service. While Swift
declined to speculate, she did comment
on Spotify and the idea of free music.
“Music is changing so
quickly, and the landscape
of the music industry itself
is changing so quickly, that
everything new, like Spoti-
fy, all feels to me a bit like
a grand experiment,” Swift
said. “And I’m not willing to
contribute my life’s work to
an experiment that I don’t
feel fairly compensates the
writers, producers, artists and creators
of this music. And I just don’t agree with
perpetuating the perception that mu-
sic has no value and should be free.”
Referencing the op-ed article she wrote
for The Wall Street Journal this year,
in which she asserted that art should
be paid for, Swift maintained that she
likes to stay open-minded about the
subject and willing to debate it as “ac-
tual progress” within the music industry.
“A lot of people were suggesting to me
that I try putting new music on Spo-
tify with ‘Shake It Off,’ and so I was
open-minded about it,” Swift said.
“I thought, ‘I will try this. I’ll see how
it feels.’ It didn’t feel right to me.”
After questioning the message she was
sending by making her music avail-
able for free, Swift concluded that she
wasn’t comfortable with the percep-
tion of the value of music that she was
projecting. “So I decided to change
the way I was doing things,” she said.
A representative for Spotify declined to
address Swift’s comments for this article.
Elsewhere in the interview, Swift ex-
plained why she focuses on writing al-
bums rather than putting out a series of
singles. “I’d really much rather write a nov-
el than a bunch of short stories,” she said.
I’d rather be known for a collection of
songs that go together and live togeth-
er and belong together. These are es-
sentially installments of my life, two
years at a time, and I work
really hard to make sure
that those installments are
good enough to also ap-
ply to other people’s lives in
two-year periods of time. Al-
bums defined my childhood,
and they’ve defined my life.”
Earlier this week, Spotify re-
leased a statement about
Swift’s decision to pull her
catalog. “We hope she’ll change her mind
and join us in building a new music econ-
omy that works for everyone,” the com-
pany’s statement read. “We believe fans
should be able to listen to music wher-
ever and whenever they want, and that
artists have an absolute right to be paid
for their work and protected from piracy.”
“I’m not willing to contribute my
life’s work to an experiment that
I don’t feel fairly compensates
the...creators of this music,”
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The most pre-ordered
album of all time
It’s been two decades since Pink Floyd
released a new recording, but now “The
Endless River” is here.
British fans made it the most-pre-or-
dered album of all time on Amazon U.K.,
reports CBS News correspondent Mark
Phillips.
Out of the mists of rock ‘n’ roll’s heyday,
a small boat drifts in above the clouds,
and a lyric seems to be telling the story
of the band singing it.
“We bitch and we fight... Diss each oth-
er on sight...” the song “Louder than
Words” says.
Pink Floyd’s internal squabbling was al-
most as famous as its music.
“It’s certainly a strong suggestion that
that could be, that it is about the band,
but it could also be seen as a couple and
their relationship,” Nick Mason said.
Maybe they should be called “Grey
Floyd” now. The new album is largely the
creation of David Gilmour and Mason,
the two enduring members of the band.
But most people will think it’s about the
band. In fact, a lot of people -- including
those in the band -- are surprised the al-
bum even happened.
“I really didn’t think
that we would do
this again after all
these years now,”
Gilmour said.
He said it didn’t have to do with the fa-
mous acrimony within the band.
“We’ve had a long career post the ac-
rimony you know, in fact we’ve had a
longer career post the acrimony than we
had with the acrimony or whatever his
name is,” Gilmour said.
In their prime, Pink Floyd was just about
as big as rock ‘n’ roll got. The band didn’t
just produce some of the biggest selling
albums in pop-music history -- world-
wide sales in the tens of millions -- it
re-invented rock.
Pink Floyd didn’t just do songs, although
they had some big hit singles. They did
concepts, whole albums meant to be lis-
tened to in one sitting -- the experience
enhanced, perhaps, with some of the
more popular stimulants of their day.
Two of its albums are undisputed rock
classics. “Dark Side of the Moon,” re-
leased in 1973, was on everybody’s re-
cord shelf. A world-wide number one, it
sat on the U.S. Billboard charts for more
than 14 years. And “The Wall,” released
in 1979, topped the charts for 15 weeks.
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Pink Floyd was also a rock ‘n’ rolling
soap opera of rivalries, jealousies,
break-downs and break-ups. By the
mid-’80s, its main writer, Roger Waters,
left, calling it a spent force.
So imagine the surprise when Gilm-
our joined Waters, Mason and Richard
Wright and re-assembled for 2005’s Live
8 concert in aide of the world’s poor.
The performance was a highlight of the
show, but their behind-the-scenes dys-
function led them to say it would never
happen again.
When Wright died in 2008, the demise
seemed complete and irreversible.But
by using some previously unreleased
recordings, including some by Wright,
and massaging them with some new
music and modern digital trickery, a
new-ish album was born.
The music video ends in the dried-
out lake-bed of the Aral Sea on the
Kazakstan-Uzbekistan border. Pink
Floyd’s tank, too, has finally run dry.
“I don’t think it’s meant to be, as I
say, the final statement, I think it’s
just a sort of a graceful ending,” Mason
said.This time, they said they mean it.
7. “The AC/DC Rock or
Bust markets will be a
one-off event that will
put the Rock on the in-
ternational map for an
impressive worldwide
fan base but more than
that it offers our locals
an amazing day out.”
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AC/DC to Launch ‘Rock or Bust’ LP
in Place Literally Called ‘The Rock
for an impressive worldwide fan base
but more than that it offers our locals an
amazing day out.”
This sort of small-town event is not un-
precedented for AC/DC’s label Colum-
bia. Previously, it played Daft Punk’s
Random Access Memories for the first
time in a small Australian town called
Wee Waa. Only 4,000 tickets were avail-
able to hear the record.
Rock or Bust is AC/DC’s first record in
six years and it will be their first with-
out founding rhythm guitarist Malcolm
Young, who left the band earlier this year
due to a debilitating illness. His nephew,
Stevie Young, played rhythm guitar on
the LP. The band debuted the first song
to come off the album, “Play Ball,” online
in October. The band intends to mount a
world tour in 2015.
Shortly after the group announced
its Rock or Bust listening party, news
broke that drummer Phil Rudd had been
arrested for allegedly playing a role in a
murder-for-hire plot in Tauranga, New
Zealand. “We’ve only become aware of
Phil’s arrest as the news was breaking,”
the band said in a statement for Rolling
Stone. “We have no further comment.
Phil’s absence will not affect the release
of our new album Rock or Bust and up-
coming tour next year.”
AC/DC take their rock seriously. The
Aussie group titled their new record
Rock or Bust, four songs on the record
have “rock” in their titles and their last
album, 2008’s Black Ice, also sported
four songs with the band’s favorite word
in the title. So the fact that the band
has selected an Australian town literally
called the Rock to launch their new al-
bum – despite a population of just over
3,000, according to The Guardian – only
makes sense.
Although the band members themselves
won’t be in attendance, the 11-track
record will play out in its entirety at a
venue in the town on November 23rd,
nine days before its official December
2nd release. “It’s fantastic for the town,”
Lockhart Shire Council’s Tourism and
Economic Development officer, Jennifer
Connor, told the regional Eastern River-
ina Chronicle. “The AC/DC Rock or Bust
markets will be a one-off event that will
put the Rock on the international map
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